Saturday, September 20, 2008

More Internal Links in Google Knol

Knol, Google's knowledge repository, has recently improved the way articles are interlinked. When you create a link, Knol shows search results for the selected text, promoting its own content.


Some knols include an automatically-generated list of related knols in the sidebar:


Unfortunately, it's hard to find high-quality articles other than the knols featured on the homepage. The top search results for [Yahoo], [marine biology], [Alan Turing] and many other popular queries are articles copied from Wikipedia. Knol could easily filter these articles from search results, especially considering that Wikipedia has a conflicting license.

Did you spot any interesting knols? I found a well-documented history of Arctic explorers, a tutorial about photography composition and an introduction to usability.

Useful links:
* Knol's changelog
* the most visited knols

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More Internal Links in Google Knol by Alex Chitu
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Blogger Michael said on September 20, 2008 5:03 PM PDT:
I wrote an article on Rationalism.

I think it's interesting :p
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Anonymous Anonymous said on September 20, 2008 10:49 PM PDT:
Your link to Uasability actually links to an overview of Binary Economics.
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Blogger Waldir said on September 21, 2008 6:40 AM PDT:
Wikipedia doesn't exactly have a "conflicting license". It all depends on the license chosen by the author of the knol. If it is a creative commons one without non-commercial or non-derivative clauses, it is compatible with Wikipedia's GFDL. And it looks like a lot of the knols are released under cc-by (attribution). IIRC that is the default license for knols, so overall there shouldn't be a conflict most times.
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Blogger theMezz said on September 21, 2008 7:07 AM PDT:
Hmmm No RSS feeds on KNOL .. trying to subscribe to new articles.. that's weird.
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Blogger Ionut Alex Chitu said on September 21, 2008 7:11 AM PDT:
@Waldir:
Regarding the conflict between GFDL and Creative Commons, read this page.

"CC-by is one-way-compatible with GFDL - meaning that CC-by content can be used in GFDL work. No non-commercial license can ever be compatible with GFDL."
What do you think?
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